Growing old is mandatory; Growing
up is optional.
-
Chili Davis
Life has different stages but it
is what you see and what you become. Growing up is not an easy task as we used
to think when we were small. Well here
we are going to talk about how the life of person changes from school to
college and further more. We all have passed this stage or will pass this stage
once in our life time but what type of education are we getting here?
Albert Einstein correctly said
that, “a single piece of paper cannot decide my future.” We all know that from
starting of our school we are taught theory, but has anyone asked how we relate
it with the things. Einstein used just 5% of his brain and he is called genius
then what are the rest doing? Sitting somewhere and just waiting for change? It
is said that there is no bigger school than curiosity, nowadays people are
afraid of asking questions only.
But as we know that a child
learns as he is taught and what he sees around in the environment. We ask a
question to parent’s that what do you teach your child? Coming first in the
examination? Killing his talent as he has to follow what the trend is
following.
We heard a case that a student who is not even
in 6th grade committed suicide, why because he scored 91% and his
friends scored more than him and told that child that you are not as
intelligent as us so make a separate group. Just look at the level of teaching,
isn’t it funny that we teach them competition. Now just tell me who will teach
them moral values, ethics, and who will go for their talent.
The best example I can give is
Sachin Tendulkar. He has not completed his school also but what we see is he is
the GOD of Cricket. There are many more examples in your life that you know but
the most important thing we are trying to tell you is go for what you love. You
just live once so make sure that you finish all the things that you dream of.
It does not matter, what you do with your life or else what you do or else what
type of education you have. All that matters is whether you have the knowledge
or not.
Long time ago there was a naval
ship which had some problem in its engine. The captain told the crew to find an
engineer to repair it, the crew brought the best engineer the topper of its
class but he could not repair it. Called another engineer but he also could not
repair it then at last they found a mechanic who had a garage. He came with a
bag handful of tools, looked around the engine and took a hammer and gently
hammered the engine. He charged 10000 bucks for this work. Captain getting
angry on him asked him a question, “For what do you charge 10000?” He replied
that, “10 bucks are for hitting the hammer but 9990 are for knowing where to
hit the hammer.”
The machine started but just the
moral was knowledge is everything. It does not mean that we need not study at
all but we all must always remember that education provides knowledge to change
things and do great things.
Now let us take
you to the real scenario of our Indian education system. What we learn here is
full of theory. No one will be able to relate it with practical life until you
are studying in a very good college or school. Let us look at the literacy
rate. Literacy in India is a key for socio-economic progress, and the Indian literacy
rate has grown to 74.04% (2011 figure) from 12% at the end of British rule in 1947. One of the main factors contributing to this
relatively low literacy rate is the lack of proper school facilities as well as
the sheer inefficiency of teaching staff across the government run education
sector. Look as I told you it is what we teach. In India there is a major
debate on sex education. We have seen that most of the people
do not have sex education so they make blunders having more than one child and
not even maintaining gap of 3 years before another child. We have gods who
teach us all this having its remaining in Baihata, Kamrup, Assam known as Madan Kamdev.
They do literally have sculptures of sex positions. Well if those
sculptures provide education to us why can’t our government provide education
to us in earlier stage so that they do not have to spend much on advertising
about sex education!
Another reason is caste discrimination. From the beginning we
are taught about caste, following a religion is a very good thing but
discriminating is another thing. People are judgmental and always judge people
on the basis of their past experience. We ask you a question that are all the
people same in the world? Well there is also a difference between a child and a
father so how can you judge the whole caste on the basis of just one or two
people.
It is said that one fish makes the whole pond dirty. Well we
all see what it is shown but no one sees the practical side of the thing or we
can say the other side of the coin. This is what the Indian society does,
rather than educating the child how to live amongst each other with peace we
are first taught with whom not to live. The child learns what he sees and it
will always do and think the same way it has been taught.
We are here just to tell you that dream and wake up to
fulfill your dream. We can make a difference in the society when we wish to
make the change. Nobody talks about innovation, scarcity, needs etc. all we
talk about is just showing off. Every generation comes with a talent unique
from all the others who can make difference which will be great.
If you do something do it great, because doing good isn’t
good enough nowadays.
- Nimit Brahmbhatt
For
doing great you don’t need to do it from the first stage, but you need to do
something where no one can beat you; it will be called great. Remember when you
fail you learn, success does not teach you that much as much as failure does.
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